Emmy Awards, Saint Louis Art Museum, and St. Louis Browns
HEC Media Wins 3 Mid-America Emmy Awards
On September 30th HEC Media was proud to bring home three Mid-America Emmy Awards! The winners were a feature by Nicholas Rousseau and Ben Smith about a legendary animator who's worked on beloved films including Frozen, The Lion King and Atlantis: The Lost Empire, an interview between HEC's Victoria Babu and Poet Javier Zamora about his book Solito, and an edition of Schankman’s St. Louis on the cast reunion of a landmark production in local theater and LGBTQ+ history.
Saint Louis Art Museum
Experience The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century! This bold new exhibit at the Saint Louis Art Museum explores the impact hip hop culture has had on music, art, fashion, and society.
Social Media and You
How do the ways you use social media affect your mental health? A new study at Washington University could reveal previously unexamined layers to this question that more and more people are asking themselves.
Famous in a Small Town
Are you familiar with the works of author Wade Rouse? You might know him better by his pen name: Viola Shipman. The writer shares the story behind this pseudonym as well details about his latest book Famous in a Small Town.
University City Public Library
After a long period of renovations, the University City Public Library is back! And its new gallery is hosting its first exhibit: Quintessential Quilt 2023. This show featuring over 50 beautiful works made by the Circle in the Square Quilters.
The St. Louis Browns in 1944
In this edition of HistorySpotlight Public Historian Adam Kloppe recounts the extraordinary upset American League pennant win by the St. Louis Browns over the Yankees, which lead them to the 1944 World Series where they faced off against none other than the St. Louis Cardinals!
Watch Spotlight every Sunday at 9:30 a.m. on Channel 11
In this week's episode, a look at how the arts and arts organizations are adapting as funding and the arts themselves continue to shift, a history lesson on a prominent judge that was named the first African American municipal judge for City Court #2 in 1965, a pediatric neurosurgeon and his book about his young patients and their stories of grace and resilience, the fall/winter exhibits that compliment the Pulitzer's architecture and neighborhood, how some of the world's smallest creatures thrive and adapt to extreme heat and cold, a music fest taking place on residential porches and a song from that event.
St. Louis’ four time winner of the Station Excellence Emmy Award and the world's foremost creator of distance learning, HEC Media is the metropolitan area's leading producer of education, arts, and cultural programming. HEC can be seen on Spectrum 989, AT&T U-verse channel 99, over-the-air digital channel 2.2, and anytime on www.hecmedia.org.
HEC Media's mission is to "Strengthen and promote the education, arts, and cultural communities in theSt. Louis metropolitan area."
